KOMODO, Indonesia — Mohammed Sidik used to sell goats to Komodo National Park to feed to the wild Komodo dragons, the world’s largest lizards, in a gory display for tourists. Park officials banned the ...

Visitors to the Saint Louis Zoo’s Charles H. Hoessle Herpetarium over the past few weeks will have noticed a long black curtain covering one wall of the building’s main atrium. It’s there to protect ...

Komodo dragons are incredible animals. They're lizards, but they have a number of unique tweaks to their chemistry that gives them advantages often only seen in mammals. To figure out how these large ...

Charlie dragon gets his name from Zoo Director Emeritus Charles Hoessle. Dragons like him can grow to 10 ft in length and 300 ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - Nashville Zoo announced a new, large Komodo dragon habitat opened to the public on Thursday. The zoo said in a media release the exhibit is the largest Komodo dragon habitat ...

The world’s largest lizard relies on venom to weaken and immobilize its prey, report researchers writing in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Until now it was believed that bacteria ...

If I know one thing about komodo dragons, it is: you cannot ride a komodo dragon, no matter how much you'd like to. If I know two things about komodo dragons, they are: you cannot ride a komodo dragon ...

Heading to the remote Indonesian island of Rinca to photograph a modern-day dinosaur was all Stefano Unterthiner’s idea. A zoologist as well as a photographer, he says, “I have always been fascinated ...